Looks Like a Catch

Spring football practice.

New Old Town Art

A new art installation on the water in Alexandria.

Tidal Basin

This photo would have people crammed together if taken at noon. Things are pretty chill at 5am.

Cherry Blossom Run

Nicole and her running friends did their annual early morning tidal basin run this week. Some nice shots without any other people around.

Another Marathon

Virginia Beach shamrock marathon is in the books. All that work for a beer.

Together Again

Driove down to Fredericksburg last night to watch a little of Dylan's rugby practice and have a family dinner. They had not seen each other since early January and Sam really hadn't seen where Dylan was living. It was fun being together and it think Dylan really liked the visit.

Big Mug

While Sam was downing tropical drinks, Dylan was drinking from a 2019 7's cup at a rugby party. We are all getting together for dinner tomorrow night in Fredericksburg which will be nice.

Spring Sammy

Sam got here for spring break late Saturday and started drinking margaritas like he was on Daytona Beach.

Chillin

Dylan sent this nicely done photo of his new Daft Punk album playing on the turntable in his dorm room. The sidewalks of UMW are deserted tonight.

21st

A few days late but we celebrated our 21st anniversary last Thursday with Dylan joining us at Brabo in Old Town.

Open Side Flanker

Dylan played well at 7 yesterday. Good to see him out there again.

New Kits

The Mothers are sporting new kits for their 2022 campaign and started out with a couple of good wins against CNU and Longwood University. Dylan played #7 in both games and was solid besides looking good.

Orono Super Fans

Thanks to Rachel we had these sweet t-shirts to help us cheer for Mae from our various locations.

5A Champions

Mae's Orono Spartans hockey team won their section last night and are headed to the state tournament. She has been in 3 section final games and finally cleared the hurdle. Hopefully they win the state tournament and she wins a second section and gets back to the state championship in her senior year as well. The pandemic has created many more ways to watch high school sports from home these days and we enjoyed the game from the comfort of our living room last night.

Quick Visit

Sam got to Newark at about 10pm on Friday and left at 10am on Sunday. It was a quick trip to see Lexi but he looks happy he made the trip.

Monmouth

Nicole scooted up to Monmouth University on Saturday morning to see Lexi and visiting Sam. Lexi had a track meet and Sam came in for the weekend for a visit. Dylan and we're home working on some school work and missed all the fun.

College Life

The bulldogs lost but Sam seems to have had fun with the blue overalls.

Peggy’s

Sam celebrated the first week of 2nd semester classes and two weeks of football training at a local pub.

Team Building

Dylan's rugby team took the train up to DC on Saturday to to a team building treasure hunt. They split up into teams and were sent out in the city to find locations and take pictures or video of them with some rugby themes, like, a line out in front of the Capitol or a group picture in front of the Old Glory headquarters.

They had fun on a cold day. Dylan is in the back row next to the guy in the red jacket.

Number 24

Sam and I got tickets to the big rivalry game between Edison and Hayfield by taking advantage of Sam's alumni status and Nicole's chocolate chip cookies delivered to the coaches. Fairfax County has limited crowds at games due to Covid. Edison lost but it was fun to see kids and parents we know from both teams. His buddy Nadir is sporting the same number Sam wore at Edison and the tip off picture is similar to the many I took of Sam over his four years on the team.

Sam was due to report back to Drake yesterday for the beginning of winter football workouts but his flight were cancelled due to the 14 inches of snow that fell in Des Moines yesterday. He wasn't to disappointed and we got him for a couple of extra nights. He leaves on Sunday at 11am now.